Startups Smarter Take Action Execute Your Goals Show 057
Startups Smarter Take Action Execute Your Goals Show 057
Hey There Trusted Friends I'm Mitchell Chadrow
Happy New Year
Let’s Make this Your Best Year Ever!!
That’s what this shows all about
Not just focused on the Why but the How
And we are going to show you how to do just that
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season
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Starting and growing a business is what it’s all about but making sure you balance that with family and life
Have You ever asked the question - why startup a business:
Is it just to make money ?
To create a family legacy ?
You like the idea of working from home?
You have the ability to visit your family in the middle of the day?
Go to your children's school functions?
Having flexibility?
Not having to deal with 10+ hours a week sitting in traffic traveling to and from a job that’s owned by someone else and you are not getting paid to sit in traffic or travel?
The podcast show is like a university on wheels your knowledge and education center for all things business.
This year my main goal is helping you in all things business advice, that’s really our main goal
I am also growing my podcast show and other websites
Bringing you more education so you can build your own business
But today we are not just talking starting and building a business but setting your personal goals
Why create your own goals for you your family and business
We are here to serve you our loyal listeners
I have been an Attorney for over 20 years, have worked for some of the largest banks in the Us and have worked with business owners helping them build wealth for their businesses and personally for them and their family
How can I help you more this year is my mantra !
If you are new to the podcast go to my website - I have a free three page PDF called the startup checklist
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I have worked for others as a fiduciary banker, attorney, tax guy -
2017 was a good year but 2018 is going to be great !
I’m going to be doing more presentations on starting up and growing your business and balancing that with family and life
Bringing you more business education, resources and tools
If you are new to the show our focus is on startups, entrepreneurs, business owners and those thinking about it but still haven’t taken action
Building a balance among business, family and life
To Gain business education and help you with your idea, sales, marketing we use the stories and lessons from other successful leaders, growth companies but those stories only go so far it’s more about you and your story and why you want to Startup and grow that business and there a lot of things that go into that to make it happen
Don’t have limited beliefs think abundance
Think through how your goals effect not only your business but family and life remove your ego
It’s having a goal to focus on, take small steps toward achieving the goal taking action and executing
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Today’s podcast show lessons:
Always take action to truly learn
Don’t just stay where your at, you must explore
Don’t just search and talk you must actually do
Stop talking yourself out of it, stop finding excuses for not writing down, speaking out loud your personal goals and moving toward executing them - taking action
Ask yourself what are your business goals, why do you have those goals and most important how we are going to execute those goals all while balancing those goals with your family and life goals!
what has been the number one reason you haven’t taken action so far what is preventing you from executing on starting up
Ask yourself these questions -
Focus on your primary business goal first - you must be clear why am I doing this ?
Have the right mind set - Be strong and have courage ! is my motto -
Not only say your goals out loud set them down in writing read them it down where you can see it everyday your goals see it write it repeat it
Take small steps baby steps with Have progress not perfection taking action teaches you
Take small moments for providing gratitude to yourself for each step that you are moving forward to achieve small steps of accomplishment
Stop beating yourself up or creating that loop of negativity and feeling sorry for yourself don’t let it prevent you from taking action
Get it done
Fear biggest obstacle
Success has a ripple effect
You will see Growth as change is an evolution especially when you become a better version of you with
No negativity
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Let’s summarize what you learned today:
Step One focus on that one business goal
Startup, get online, make your first sale, create your marketing plan, grow the business, find your team
Step two - get clear and focus on why - why are you doing this - what is your purpose - it might be to balance business, family and life, give a legacy to your family, make a difference to others - whatever it is is probably more than I want to be a millionaire -
Step three - write down your goals, read them and speak them out loud
Step four - Have the right mind be positive stop the negativity and hanging around those that attempt to pull you down - surround yourself with good people who can help you and your goals
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Dads on tour: I’m on a boat
My dad loves to write a holiday letter. And they’re usually too funny not to share. Names have been changed to protect fellow passengers (you’ll understand why)...
This letter was received from Argentina after a boat cruise around Cape Horn.
“Long flights are the means to an end but always throw up their challenges.
After QANTAS decided that my safety was important to them they pulled the plane out of service at the last minute and brought in one that I am sure will be first to go in Alan Joyce’s fire sale when the new ones come on board this year – but it made it!
I cannot say I have experienced a paper cup delay before – who forgot to put the coffee cups on board? What’s another 15 minutes!
At least I wasn’t confronted by one of the space Nazis who has to recline their seat in your face as soon as the seat belt lights go off.
School holidays , what to expect other than a couple of disgruntled teachers sitting behind upset about how the assistant principals conspired to stack the principal selection panel to get one of them up for the principal job, but the plot was overheard by staff.
Flying south along the Andes from Santiago to Punta Arenas is just another reminder of how elongated Chile is, running some 4500 km north to south and this was over a 3 hour flight to the deeper south. Lots of volcanoes to be seen until the even longer continuous white cloud took over.
Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas is an interesting place, very much wanting to be part of the tourist scene given its location as a potential jumping off point to Patagonia and colder parts further south. At the same time it is very much part of the petrochemical scene for Chile.
Summer temps can get into the mid to higher teens with a day or two of mid twenties in February when the kids take the plunge into the fairly icy waters.
Beach towels on sale after Christmas – really what was that retailer thinking!
Global warming impacts heavily in Sth America and here the big issue was that the ice skating rink didn’t freeze over last winter for the first year in a long time.
There is no chance of the Donald visiting Patagonia one feels! I met a lot of Americans hiking in Torres del Paine and did not find one who claimed to have voted for him!
With some trepidation I headed off on a tour of Punta Arenas where the main attraction was the cemetery! Hmmm!
Much of this area is steppe used for farming of sheep and more recently cattle in a harsh environment with the original pastoralists coming essentially in hope wanting to make a fresh start in the mid 1800s.
In came Mr Menendez with his manager Mr Braun. Mr Menendez (Jose to his friends) was given lots and lots of land by the government. So all the way from Lithuana comes Mr Braun’s sister Sara who manages to marry very quickly more new found wealth. Her husband dies young and she inherits the biscuits!
So we now have the wealthiest of the wealthy as the Brauns and the Menendez’s. Needless to say Mr Braun’s son then marries Jose Menendez’s daughter and the deal is done.
The Brauns control all the wealth. Sara has a palace built adjoining the main square with a special little sun chamber constructed at the front to enable her to watch the goings on of the locals.
Mr Braun builds his palace next door with a special glassed in tower on top that enables him to look out over the city to the waters below carrying out a busy trade of his sheep on the Magellan Straits pre Panama Canal.
Sara died in the 1950s and her name is all over town, including the Sara Brown Secondary School (as well as the cemetery where her tomb is one of the biggest – her husband is a small one beside hers – she would not be buried with him as he was the wrong religion in death but not in marriage!).
The trip from Punta Arenas into the stunning landscapes of Patagonia is almost a 5 hour bus ride through to Eco Camp where I stayed.
The M&Ms
Just four passengers on the bus. Enter an Australian couple, he retired, she still working as a GP.
If it’s travel, they have done it all and happy to tell everyone about it. If they haven’t been there they have been somewhere better!
“Some people call us M&M” comes the admission related to their Christian names, others might have seen a physical resemblance to one – lets call him M2 as there was no doubt who was M1.
After a very fleeting (2 day) visit to Patagonia, M&M were headed for an Antarctica cruise on a very expensive boat as M2 had an akubra that he had worn on all other continents and he needed to go to Antarctica to complete the set.
They struggled physically with the demands of the sightseeing “you know he is full of medical bits” but did manage in a couple of days to see a few animals and ensure that everyone knew of their world travels and that for them travel complications only happened when they let their friends do part of the organisation of the trip.
EcoCamp
The EcoCamp where I stayed at Torres del Paine was really good. Living in a dome for four nights was different. A little case of the haves and have nots – I had the “standard” number – no heating or ensuite, neither of which bothered me but the half sized doors were a bit of an embuggerance for someone with no protection from skinning the skull on the top of the door way!
For a few more dollars they came with heaters and ensuites (and bigger doors!) My three days there were spent taking on the three arms of the “W route” which essentially take in the three most commonly visited locations in the park - the Torres del Paine base (a 22km walk/climb), the Frenchmans Valley (an 18km walk) and the Grey Glacier (a more relaxing boatride).
I’ll let the pictures do the talking for these three experiences – they were all amazing, although the Frenchmans Valley was a little soggy which stopped us doing the last 3 kms of the walk. We tended to be with the same group each day and that enhanced the whole experience as well.
I then travelled back to Punta Arenas to board the Stella Australis, a four day boat trip headed ultimately to the Beagle Channel and a landing at Cape Horn, before docking in Ushuaia (Argentina).
On the boat
All aboard, OMG, around 190 passengers had me shaking at the knees anyway given my allergy to cruise boats, but this was a means to an end and I had to keep revisiting that!
A cruise with a group of 37 from Deutschland and as if it were an Olympics medal count, even more from the U.S of A. These were not the type of American tourists I had met at the Ecolodge.
At my first meal I made the mistake of walking too far into the dining room where a lady met me and said “I’m sorry but these tables are for a special group of us from Harvard”. The Donald was alive and well here! One of the Americans on my dinner table has already told me how .... you guessed it, I have found someone who voted for Donald!
But then this couple did stay on the same floor as Venus and Sarina when they came out to the Australian Open. Looking after Hedge Funds in the U.S. set him up and she is big in events management (running the campaign to convert the under 35s that All Spice is not for “old people” and organising corporates with Bill Clinton and Colin Powell.
I even came across the person who co-ordinated the bid for the London Olympics. On the last night they have an auction to sell off the navigation map to Cape Horn – that will be a story and I certainly would not consider a bid!
The boat trip was fine. Loved the barrage of glaciers, many coming right down to sea level. There was a small celebration as we passed the avenue of the glaciers - the Italian, French, English, German and Dutch glaciers in quick succession, with the crew handing out corresponding alcohol and food, ensuring a lively night on board.
Loved the wildlife we have seen with animals right into breeding season (well childcare really) – they don’t have long before winter is back. I’m not making any parallels with some of the passengers there!
I find the U.S of A provides a rich source of amusement! The (U.S.) woman seen carrying a torch on the boat saying you know it still does get dark at night here. The (U.S.) grumpy old man at the reception after the first meal complaining the he was “starving” as he didn’t eat octopus and there was no other option – the octopus was an opener only in a 4 course meal. The (U.S.) woman who on hearing they are building another of these expedition boats to increase the number of trips heard to say “Oh, could it be with an elevator” Then coming back to that recurrent theme of the Donald as it comes up in conversation all the time, the man (from the U.S. and sounding like let’s say North Dakota) perhaps coming to terms with reality reading an article “Managing Donald” Then there was the group from Harvard who had their own sessions running – “welcome to come along but you are not permitted to ask any questions”.
Cape Horn
After being softened up for the prospect of not being able to land at Cape Horn, the weather gods smiled initially at least with sunshine and calm.
This is as far south as it gets short of Antarctica and one family gets to look after the place for a 12 month stint (no breaks and no leaving the island unless an emergency).
So just in case you were contemplating a career change (there is just the Naval officer, his wife who becomes the Park Ranger, and three kids 14,8 and 1) it takes 12 months training to ensure you are emotionally stable and then appendix removal for everyone with the Naval Officer opting for the vasectomy as well.
No TV of course and a weather station to be read every 3 hours. In summer you get to talk to a few visitors such as our boatload, in winter no one comes near the place. Just to remind everyone of the hostility of the environment, we arrived in sunshine and left in heavy snow (all in one hour). But then as was said, it is an address that almost everyone on the world knows of.
Argentina
This morning saw an Argentinean stamp in the passport with the boat trip ending in Ushuaia. It has become a trendy little place catering to tourists jumping off to Antarctica these days.
It wasn’t always that way though having been set up as a penitentiary where the inmates outnumbered the residents back at the turn of the 20th century. A little train runs today (at a price doing the Argentinean economy no harm), along the line constructed by the inmates over 100 years ago – a fascinating story, but not for the inmates I am sure.
The journey continues!
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